Kate Garraway has blasted government ministers over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic as her husband continues to battle the effects of Covid.
The 54-year-old presenter suggested that leaders “didn’t care enough” when putting plans in place to guide the nation through the global crisis.
Discussing the latest headlines on Good Morning Britain on Thursday, Kate and co-stars Susanna Reid and Ben Shephard explored the allegations made by the Prime Minister’s former chief special advisor Dominic Cummings, who spent hours giving evidence to parliamentary committees about the government’s response to the pandemic on Wednesday.
Mr Cummings was highly critical about policies and individuals – including the UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself.
Speaking about comments made in a recent government meeting, Kate said: “They wanted people to think 24 hours a day people were on it, searching, trying to find out what as going on.
“And some of those sentences where they said ‘actually I liked chaos because they’ll turn to me’ smacked of putting self first and that’s when people will start to feel more anger.
“We had to trust they were doing their best. You wanted it feel that was their focus and i’m sure it was but the delivery and what we heard just made you feel like ‘oh come on’.
Ben, 46, added: “It’s like they didn’t care enough.”
Kate agreed: ‘That’s the worry. Didn’t care enough.”
The former I’m A Celebrity contestant also reflected back on her and husband Derek Draper’s heartbreaking experience with the virusover the last year.
Giving her views following her personal experience with coronavirus, Kate explained: “I’ve spend a lot of time reflecting on things that may have been different in lots of ways.
“Both in the government’s handling of it and the scientific advice, in the doctor’s advice specifically to Derek, and it was definitely confused wasn’t it?
“I think hindsight is a wonderful thing but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t address what went wrong.
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She added: “Obviously, there we things that could have helped we now know but just as the doctor’s say if we’d given Derek this particular medication at this point, we now know it would have helped but at the time what we feared is it might have killed him.
“I am quite generous to the government generally about the fact they would look at a situation thinking what is going to be the most harmful and if he [Cummings] said Boris Johnson was more obsessed with the economy, maybe he genuinely believe that was the biggest risk.
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“But that doesn’t mean that planning for the pandemic and planning for lockdown. That should have been something in place.
“Not just from Boris Johnson perspective or Matt Hancock but society that we haven’t got these things in place.”
Kate’s husband Derek was struck down with coronavirus in March 2020 and returned home from hospital in April this year.
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He was taken to Andrew Marr show over the weekend, mother of two Kate contestant said: “He is devastated by Covid. He can’t really move, his communication is very minimal.
“There are moments when they’re up, so in those moments you feel that you know he’s in there. He has a lot of memory but the accessing of it is very limited.”
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays on ITV at 6am
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
